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Cowboys-Bucs draw season-low TV rating

It’s understandable. Saturday night is the hardest night of the week to attract viewers. And Tampa Bay is hardly a marquee team. That was a tough combination as the Cowboys-Bucs drew a paltry 25.7 rating in Dallas-Fort Worth.

The game earned an 18.4 rating on KDAF (Channel 33), which simply served up a simulcast of NFL Network’s production. On NFLN, the game earned a 7.3 locally.

The previous lowest rating of the season had come on Thanksgiving (folks are out of their homes visiting and watching en masse) when the Cowboys-Dolphins earned a 26.1 on CBS.

And just so you know: The highest rating of the season came the previous week when the Cowboys loss to the Giants scored a 41.6 rating. The difference from high to low in six days is 15.9 ratings points. In D-FW, that represents a massive 408,836 homes.